International Law

The silence of the lamb

By John Hirst

It's a slow news day. The Daily Telegraph reports Girl vanishes near Madeleine McCann site. I would hardly call a distance of 120 miles "near". But that has not stopped Metodo 3, the private detective agency employed by the McCanns, from trying to create a link to Madeleine's disappearance, like the bumbling Inspector Clouseau played by Peter Sellars in the Pink Panther films. Given that this little girl went missing on Sunday, it has only just reached the British media on Wednesday, without all the fanfare we witnessed at the time Madeleine disappeared. And only then because the media hungry McCanns will stop at nothing, even jumping on someone else's bandwagon, as they try and sell us the "we have done nothing wrong line".

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on January 16, 2008 (boomark / email).